[DCRM-L] Help with illustration term

[Karen Nipps]

In the world of children's books, these are known as "flap books." In 
the past, for lack of a specific genre term, at both the Library Company 
and Houghton, we have taken to using the more general, but widely 
recognized, LCSH term "toy and movable books". - Karen

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> *From:* dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] 
> *On Behalf Of *Auyong, Dorothy
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 10, 2008 4:38 PM
> *To:* DCRM Revision Group List
> *Subject:* [DCRM-L] Help with illustration term
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> We need help describing what are, for want of a better term, “lift the 
> flap” type illustrations in a 1841 Obstetrics atlas. In this case, the 
> illustrations are generally of various “fetus in womb” situations, and 
> the reader lifts one or more flaps to see the progression of the image.
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> We’ve run across this lacunae in the terminology before with “pop-up” 
> type illustrations in a 16^th century mathematical work they weren’t 
> volvelles, but illustrations or tables that changed as you pulled on 
> flaps. “Pop-up books” exists in AAT as a term for a work consisting 
> primarily of these interactive illustrations, but there’s no 
> terminology for the individual types of illustrations themselves.
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> I appeal to the collective wisdom of the list for help!
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> Dorothy Auyong
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> Principal Rare Book Cataloger
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> Huntington Library
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> dauyong at huntington.org
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Karen Nipps
Head, Rare Books Team
Houghton Library
Harvard University
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